Miami, United States
The charity Daughters of Elks announced this Thursday in the company of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, donations on tickets for those affected in Honduras during the extremely active 2020 hurricane season.
At a press conference, Mayor Suarez lamented that at least “two million people in Honduras were left homeless” because of the cyclones, which last year raged with Central America.
Suárez stressed that the Daughters of Elks, The chapter in Miami was founded in 1911, decided to send donations to Hondurans even though they have no ties to Central America.
the Honduran Brenda Betancourt, president of the 8th Chamber of Commerce, Explained that five containers with food, medicine and other inputs have been sent to Honduras and that before the end of the month the last one with which they manage to collect will be sent.
Betancourt, who coordinated the aid with Mayor Suárez and this charity, said donations are being collected at five fire stations in the city.
Linda Ward Stuart, member of the Daughters of Elks, Told Efe that it was a great idea to get involved with the people of Honduras in what will be the organization’s first charity shipment this year.
major hurricanes
The destructive season of hurricanes in the Atlantic, which ended last November, raged with Central America and the countries in the Gulf of Mexico in general.
In 2020, 6 major hurricanes were formed, ie category 3 (sustained winds of 111 miles per hour or 178 km / h) or more.
Two of them, Iota and Eta, affected Honduras and other Central American countries, a region highly vulnerable to natural disasters and still struggling with the effects of covid-19.
It is estimated that only a Honduras more than 3.5 million people were affected by the two hurricanes, which left 45 bridges destroyed and 55 damaged.
The 2020 season broke records by adding 30 cyclones with denomination, appealing for the second time to the Greek alphabet, after exhausting the list of 21 scheduled names, and leaving dead and numerous property damage in an already unfortunate 2020 affected by the covid pandemic- 19. EFE